Thionville. For fear of her ex, she has cameras installed at her house

It is to put an end to a difficult relationship, punctuated by blows, that the couple finally divorced. The father sentenced in 2017 for domestic violence has not seen his children for almost two years. His ex-wife has rebuilt her life and seems to have found a balance. Apparent. Only.

Her ex-husband promised her that he was going to “ruin her life”. She says: “I suffer from his harassment. He is everywhere. He follows me incessantly. I had to have a network of CCTV cameras installed at home. “On January 20, 2020, she found her vehicle, parked in front of her house, degraded. CCTV shows the children’s father, an object in his hand, scratching the car. On May 15, he again shows up at his ex-wife’s home and sees her through the window with her new partner. Annoyed, he mimics the pistol sign with his fingers. Then, on May 25, he crossed paths with her in a car in Hayange, followed her behind and parked just behind her. “I didn’t dare get out of my vehicle. I waited a bit and then called the gendarmes. When he saw that I was on the phone, he left, ”reports the victim.

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“Trample on his ex-wife”

He has a completely different version: “I take this road morning and evening to go to Luxembourg and back. I was just coming home from work when I saw his car. It was the hour when the children were leaving school and I thought maybe they would be with her. I just wanted to see them. “

The father of the family plays his part, that of the loving father, deprived of his children, who does not live with separation from them. However, as President Eric Lambert underlines: “You were prohibited from approaching your ex-wife’s home for two years and you waited until the day this ban was lifted to come and damage your vehicle. “. “I did not think about what I was doing”, loose the defendant. “Monsieur has to pay for the fact that he does not think, that he does not know how to control his nerves. It is a dad who suffers and who does not hesitate to trample on his ex-wife, ”asserts Ludovic Louet for the floor. Of the 18 months including 9 with a 3-year probationary suspension required by the public prosecutor, the accused will finally be released for harassment for lack of evidence and sentenced for willful damage to the property of others to pay a fine of € 300 as well as damages. .

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